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Educational Psychology and Teaching-Licence Preparation

Educational Psychology is identified as a required course for junior-high and high-school teaching licences in the supplied curriculum information. The materials also recommend taking it with other basic teacher-training courses, although the recommended course list and curriculum details vary by scope.

Is Educational Psychology required for a teaching licence?

In the supplied curriculum information, Educational Psychology is required for both junior-high and high-school teaching licences. It corresponds to the legal category concerning the psychological development and learning processes of infants, children, and students. The course is worth 2 credits and is generally listed as a first-year, second-semester lecture. In one supplied 2026-entry curriculum for the Faculty of Engineering, Division II, it is listed under the basic understanding of education category with teacher-training code 3304. Other supplied curriculum tables use teacher-training code 10202. The tables may label the course as elective in the general course-selection column while also marking it as required for the relevant teaching licences; these are separate classifications.

Recommended courses for teaching-licence preparation

For students preparing to obtain a teaching licence, the supplied guidance recommends not relying on the applicable substitution provision and taking at least Introduction to the Teaching Profession, Foundations of Education, Educational Psychology, and Teaching Methods for Industrial Subjects. In the Faculty of Science and Technology and the 2025 Faculty of Engineering, Division II scopes, the guidance additionally recommends completing Career Guidance for 2 credits and Teaching Methods for Industrial Subjects for 4 credits, for a total of 6 credits, followed by at least 2 credits each in Introduction to the Teaching Profession, Foundations of Education, and Educational Psychology. The supplied wording presents these courses as recommendations and does not state that this recommended list itself is a mandatory condition for obtaining a licence.

Official sources

The following official Tokyo Denki University materials were used to prepare this page.